Specifically, which gun did Mitt grab from you?
Do we want to let Mitt graduate from a professed gun-grabber to an actual gun-grabber once he is in a position of power to make that transition?
“Specifically, which gun did Mitt grab from you?”
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Host Tim Russert asked Romney about his earlier support for strong gun control laws, noting that in his 1994 Senate race againt Ted Kennedy, Romney backed two gun-control measures — the Brady Bill with its waiting period on gun sales; and the renewal of a 1994 ban on “assault” weapons.
At the time, Romney said he didn’t “line up with the NRA.” But when he decided to run for president, Romney signed up for a lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association.
Romney on Sunday admitted that he did support the assault weapon ban. But he hedged on whether he’s still for it: “Let me describe it,” he said to Russert, as Russert pressed him to say whether he still supports the assault weapons ban.
“I would have supported the original assault weapon ban,” Romney said. “I signed an assault weapon ban as Massachusetts governor because it provided for a relaxation of licensing requirements for gun owners in Massachusetts, which was a big plus. And so both the pro-gun and the anti-gun lobby came together with a bill, and I signed that.
“And if there is determined to be, from time to time, a weapon of such lethality that it poses a grave risk to our law enforcement personnel, that’s something I would consider signing. There’s nothing of that nature that’s being proposed today in Washington.” But Romney said he “would look at weapons that pose extraordinary lethality.”
Russert tried again: “So the assault ban that expired...because Congress didn’t act on it, you would support?”
Romney noted that President Bush said he would have signed the bill if it came to his desk — “and so would I.”